Quiz
2667 questions of the kind that actually get asked — in interviews, in architecture review boards, and by the person who has to run the thing at 3 AM. Every answer states the trade-off rather than the slogan, and says when the obvious choice is the wrong one.
All areas2667
Architecture Fundamentals81
Distributed Systems101
Data Architecture90
Cloud Architecture87
Networking86
API & Integration Architecture78
Reliability & Resilience88
Observability81
Performance & Capacity Engineering90
Security Architecture95
Cost Architecture & FinOps92
Business Architecture93
Architecture Communication91
Enterprise Architecture91
Legacy Modernization92
AI-Era Architecture86
Software Architecture & Engineering84
Architecture Patterns84
Architecture Decision-Making91
The Architect's Meta-Skills92
Delivery & Release Engineering93
Platform Engineering & Developer Experience92
Testing & Quality Architecture90
Data Platform Architecture88
Streaming & Real-Time Data93
Data Governance & Semantics81
Frontend & Experience Architecture91
Edge, Mobile & IoT88
Regulatory & Data Protection Architecture90
Assurance, Audit & Model Risk88
3 questions in Fitness Functions.
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Fitness Functions advanced
"Interview. You are the architect for a grocery marketplace where item availability changes constantly. Name three fitness functions you would put in CI to protect the architecture, and explain what each one would have caught." What makes a strong answer?
2 min answer fitness-functionsciinstacartmarketplace -
Fitness Functions advanced
Architecture decisions in your organisation are either ignored or bottlenecked in a review board. Design something better.
3 min answer governanceadrfitness-functionsprinciples -
Fitness Functions advanced
In 2023 a team added a build rule forbidding the domain module from importing the persistence module, and it went green. In 2026 the domain module imports persistence in fourteen places and the build is still green. No one disabled the rule and no one edited it. Reconstruct how a passing check ended up protecting nothing.
3 min answer fitness-functionsarchitecture-testingdriftsilent-failure